London4Europe Committee member Michael Romberg writes that at last the Remain movement has come round to the one right method for stopping Brexit. Now we must agree on the aim.

Past marches have been generally anti-hard-Brexit/ anti-Brexit/ pro-EU. That’s fine. But that did not – and could not – achieve anything. Without unity of purpose nothing can be achieved. Because the 23 June march is a march agreed on a strategic method it has at least a chance of success.

Something to learn from UKIP

We need to learn from the most successful political movement of recent British history: UKIP. They were always very clear about what they wanted (out of the EU) and how they were going to get it (a referendum).

If Brexit happens then that they never bothered to define what Brexit meant or its purpose would be a major problem in realising whatever it was that they hoped to get out of it. But for campaigning purposes that did not matter.

Those who are campaigning for a soft Brexit because they think it is the best we can get also need to accept it will not happen. Labour’s June 2018 refusal to support membership of the European Economic Area as a negotiating objective makes that clear. The time to soften Brexit is in the negotiations in the transition period, if we do Leave. The job now is to stop Brexit.

(Those who sincerely prefer Norway-style EEA membership to EU membership should of course continue to campaign for what they believe in. I disagree with them of course, but my opposition in this article is to tactical support for EEA.)

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